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"I used to think that when people fell in love, they just landed where they landed, and they had no choice in the matter afterward. And maybe that’s true of beginnings, but it’s not true of this, now. I fell in love with him. But I don’t just stay with him by default as if there’s no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me."

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

"It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks"

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

"When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways unremarkable- except that she had jumped first. The stiff had jumped first. Even I didn't jump first. Her eyes were so stern, so insistent. Beautiful."

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

"Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now."

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

"Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I've just run into a wall."

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

"I grabbed hold of my Divergence like it was a hand outstretched to save me. I needed that word to tell me who I was when everything else was coming apart around me. But now I'm wondering if I need it anymore, if we ever really need these words, 'Dauntless,' 'Erudite,' 'Divergent,' "Allegiant,' or if we can just be friends or lovers or siblings, defined instead by the choices we make and the love and loyalty that binds us."

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

"He still smiles all the time, but now his smiles look like they're made out of water, about to drip down his face."

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

"I was angry with him before. I’m not really sure why. Maybe I was just angry that the world had become such a complicated place, that I have never known even a fraction of the truth about it. Or that I allowed myself to grieve for someone who was never really gone, the same way I grieved for my mother all the years I thought she was dead. Tricking someone into grief is one of the cruelest tricks a person can play, and it’s been played on me twice."

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

"It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt."We stay in the silence and the loneliness of the otherwise empty dormitory for a few more minutes, and I try to let her words work themselves into me."

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

"I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family. And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior"

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

"It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do."

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

"I have been able to be kind and pleasant to him because every time I think of what happened in Erudite headquarters, I immediately push the thought aside. But that can't be forgiveness - if I had forgiven him, I would be able to think of what happened without that hated I can feel in my gut, right?Or maybe forgiveness is just the continual pushing aside of bitter memories, until time dulls the hurt and the anger, and the wrong is forgotten."

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

"When someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself."

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

"I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken."

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

"Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?I want to be. I can. I believe it."

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

"I hear something in her words that's right, but it's hard to believe her right now."

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

"I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart."

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

"I laugh, and it’s laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place whereeverything I’ve ever known is coming apart. I know some things—I know that I’m not alone, that I have friends, that I’m in love. I know where I came from. I know that I don’t want to die, and for me, that’s something—more than I could have said a few weeks ago."

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

"It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head."

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

"I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low.'A group of scientists told you that my genes were damaged, that there was something wrong with me - they showed you the test results that proved it. And even I started to believe it.' He touches my face, his thumb skimming my cheekbone, and his eyes are on mine, intense and insistent.'You never believed it,' he says 'Not for a second. You always insisted I was... I don't know, whole."

Veronica Roth, Allegiant

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